Biography

Joe Dixon
Real name: Joseph Dixon
American jazz clarinetist and saxophonist, born April 21, 1917 in Lynn, MA.Moved to New York in 1934 to join Bill Staffon's orchestra, played with Tommy Dorsey 1936-1947. Later freelance, in the early 1960s leading the Long Island Jazz Quartette. From 1973 to 1981 led his own Nassau Neophonic Jazz Ensemble.